Recent content by RRDieselbass

Rickenbacker 4003 is the best example of "The Les Paul of basses".

I always pictured it was one of these kooky things...

It's a guitar shaped space ship. Not a bass. For Boston, More Than an Album Cover

Played a Silverburst today (plugged in). I loved the sound, night and day between active and passive tones. Active setting was loud! and a lot of tonal choices. Great bass, very nice neck and body felt comfortable (played sitting down). Feels solid and well built. Now how am I gonna come up with...

I see that OP's question was never answered, what size tuners for this bass?

The Tequila Sunrise is the first one that caught my attention but now I am loving the 3 color sunburst. I have seen the blue one too in person and it is also beautiful.

Hopefully they will make these passive as an option, also a short scale version would be really cool. Personally, I don't like the Starcaster headstock (I don't have a problem with the regular Fender headstock). Also, if Squire made these they would be a huge hit. Too expensive as they are now...

Cool, report back and let us know what you think. Honestly I love the look but there are so many things that I don't like about them that it would take a big price drop for me to consider. I have played one (unplugged) and it was seriously heavy but had a pretty cool vibe and did seem very well...

Good question, the ones on the Sweetwater website haven't budged as far as I can tell. The two that are at my local guitar store haven't sold either. Relatively few posts here on Talk Bass. Beyond that maybe just a gut feeling I have. I would have thought these would have taken off in a big way...

I do not believe the Meteora basses were a really, really successful launch. I call B.S. on that.

I just played a blue one at my local guitar shop (Truetone Music in Santa Monica) (I didn't plug in). First of all: Gorgeous blue paint job with slight metal flake, better looking in person than in pictures. Seemed HUGE (like a Gibson Thunderbird) not necessarily a bad thing but definitely a...

Not sure if this has been mentioned but keep in mind that he has your address. Depending on his level of crazy , be careful he doesn't come a knockin' on your front door...

Great shape, I loved the mockingbird shape ever since I saw Joe Perry playing one in a 70's guitar magazine. Can you explain your creative process and how you came up with this unique design? Definitely "out of the box" thinking on this one. Kudos for creating such an iconic guitar shape.

Btw I made this mistake both times so it should be mentioned: The white lead to the jack must be opposite the end pin, in the photo in the instructions that I had this was not made clear and will not work when plugged in. Might be obvious for some but wasn't for me. Hope it helps.

Just got my second one for my new Frankenstein p bass build. I love these pick ups and if I can install them, anyone can do it. Very easy, just follow the directions (I also watched a YouTube video which helped).